by | Jun 19, 2024 12:19 pm | Comments (15)
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Jeanette Sykes, at the helm of new neighborhood dev corp.
A group of Newhallville residents has banded together to build affordable, owner-occupied housing — and expand awareness of neighborhood resources — by way of a revived community development corporation.
by | Jun 19, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (9)
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Alder Mabery-Niblack, Kierra Guest, and Steve Winter ...
... ready to clean clean clean, including the pile of trash sitting outside Felicia Jones’s apartment.
Felicia Jones couldn’t believe how much trash her former neighbors had dumped at the corner of Read and Butler streets.
Two weeks after those neighbors had moved out, the pile remained — stopping fellow Newhallville resident Gwenadine Felder in her tracks as she made her way down the block to pick up litter as part of a neighborhood cleanup.
by | Jun 18, 2024 9:30 am | Comments (31)
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Derek Baker: 201 Munson "fit all the bills"
Derek Baker unloaded his U‑Haul truck after wrapping up the roughly 700-mile drive from metro Detroit to Munson Street, as he prepared to enter a new stage of his life studying MRIs and brain scans at Yale — while living out of a brand new luxury apartment complex in a development-rich stretch of Dixwell-Newhallville-Science Park.
by | Jun 14, 2024 5:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Emily Contreras Lopez and Karyssa Twig, headed to Amistad Academy and Betsy Ross Arts Magnet respectively, sing at Friday's graduation.
You can really tell the character of a school by its graduation exercise.
by | Jun 12, 2024 9:24 am | Comments (16)
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Steve Winter, at the doors with Pamela Stewart.
Dems Dems Dems for Winter: State Rep. Josh Elliott, State Rep. Roland Lemar, Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker, State Sen. Martin Looney, Alder President Tyisha Walker-Myers, State Sen. Gary Winfield, and Alder Brittiany Mabery-Niblack.
Two mayors, dozens of state and local legislators, and a man who once ran against him for alder were among a crowd of New Haveners and Hamdenites who gathered on Monday to endorse Steve Winter for a rare open seat in the state legislature.
by | Jun 11, 2024 11:12 am | Comments (5)
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Sunjai Yancey Williams, watering broccoli pots in the Ivy St. Community Garden.
First-graders Amayah Williams and Anastasia Rivera: Making dog treats for the animal shelter with "love."
Lincoln-Bassett School fourth-grader Sunjai Yancey Williams carefully poured water into a pot of broccoli sprouts. Her eyes were focused. The second she finished with the pot, they eased in relief.
She and her classmates were inside the greenhouse at the Ivy Street Community Garden for their Newhallville school’s “Community Day” — and helping the garden grow was part of the programming created by Assistant Principal Eva Schultz.
Continue reading ‘Lincoln-Bassett Students Lend A Helping Hand’
by | Jun 7, 2024 9:01 am | Comments (9)
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794 Dixwell Ave.
The leaky roof of 794 Dixwell Ave. will soon get fixed, with the help of $300,000 from the city, in time for a new all-boys charter school to open there in the fall.
Continue reading ‘Alders Fund Clifford Beers, Charter School Roof Repairs’
by | Jun 5, 2024 4:48 pm | Comments (6)
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ConnCAT Youth Program Assistant Rachel Graziano (center) cuts the ribbon to her future home alongside ConnCORP's Ian Williams and Erik Clemons.
Rachel Graziano currently lives in Naugatuck, because the rent there is cheaper — but not for long.
By July, she’ll finally move back to her hometown of New Haven, renting a brand new Newhallville house built by her employer, the local workforce and housing developer ConnCAT/ConnCORP.
by | May 31, 2024 3:19 pm | Comments (0)
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Newhallville's Jeanette Sykes: "You are taking a step in the right direction."
Questions from Newhallville neighbors flew fast and furious at a community meeting with a representative from Mandy Management on Thursday evening: Why is an old eviction still coming up when I’m applying for an apartment? How do I overcome a bad credit score? And what is the turnaround time for addressing repairs and upkeep?
by | May 28, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (4)
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Galina Zalman, in front of her 33 Hazel St. home in 2020.
New Haven’s new housing judge heard three versions of what went wrong at a Hazel Street rooming house.
In the process, she also got a firsthand look at some of the challenges facing people living one false step away from homelessness.
by | May 28, 2024 8:41 am | Comments (9)
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15 Colby Ct., to be replaced by 4 new townhouse rentals.
A pair of plans to build four needed houses apiece moved ahead for underused plots of Upper Westville and Newhallville.
by | May 20, 2024 1:43 pm | Comments (10)
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Playing nice: Mutually complimentary 94th District office-seekers Abdul Osmanu & Steve Winter.
A next-generation primary contest is shaping up as a second candidate has emerged seeking the Democratic nomination for a New Haven-Hamden legislative district.
by | May 16, 2024 9:09 am | Comments (35)
Changing of the guard: Incumbent Porter, nominee Winter.
It appears something momentous will happen this year in New Haven: Voters will elect a new state legislator, for the first time in eight years.
That’s because incumbent State Rep. Robyn Porter did not show up to a convention Wednesday night to receive the Democratic Party’s endorsement to run for a sixth two-year term representing the 94th General Assembly District.
Continue reading ‘Surprise! Winter Tapped For Porter's Seat’
by | May 8, 2024 11:11 am | Comments (4)
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On the canal trail by the William "King" Lanson statue.
The history of New Haven entrepreneurship past and present. The fortunes of a neighborhood rising and falling, and rising again. The legacies of environmental depredation, and the work to create healthier, more sustainable places.
All these themes were touched upon in the latest walk from the New Haven Bioregional Group, in which Aaron Goode of Friends of the Farmington Canal Greenway led a group of about 30 walkers through the New Haven section of the urban trail that today connects almost seamlessly to Northampton, Mass.
Continue reading ‘Canal Walk Connects City's Past, Present, Future’
by | May 7, 2024 12:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Well-wishers gathered Sunday for Sister Geneva.
The late Geneva Pollock.
Geneva Pollock showed up.
She showed up for the three generations of students she taught English to at Jackie Robinson Middle School; for the neighbors she met on her Newhallville door-knocking tours; for anyone she heard had lost a loved one and was grieving.
On a brisk, grey morning, 125 people showed up to honor the legacy of Pollock, who died in May 2020 at 76 years old, with a street corner renaming.
The four-foot-nine dynamo who grew up picking cotton in Alabama went on to become “a teacher, a ward co-chair, an usher, a mother and grandmother, a friend, my friend, and so much more,” said Claudine Wilkins-Chambers, as she waited for the street renaming ceremony to begin. “She did so much for so many of us.”
by | Apr 24, 2024 8:43 am | Comments (1)
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Parent Raquel Sanchez checks out the headlines during PLTI media literacy lesson.
Raquel Sanchez paged through recent issues of the New Haven Register and La Voz Hispana, on the lookout for opinion essays and articles about families — as part of a class teaching parents about the importance of media literacy for themselves, their kids, and others.
by | Apr 22, 2024 11:13 am | Comments (0)
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Sequoia.
The photograph is from northern California, and photographer Amartya De said it was his roommate’s favorite of his pictures at the time because “it shows the landscape.” It was a city, but not really a city; it was a place close to the redwoods. De was there from Calcutta, learning how to become an artist, and learning that the practice of making art and the practice of surviving weren’t all that different.
by | Apr 18, 2024 4:04 pm | Comments (3)
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11-year-old Avery with her favorite Black Raspberry Newhall Street soap.
Bassett Street smells like lemongrass and poppy seeds to 11-year-old Kauren, now that her favorite sweet-citrusy soap is up for sale in honor of the street where she goes to school.
Continue reading ‘Soaps Honor Newhallville At Kids' Black Wall Street’
by | Apr 3, 2024 3:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson, the future namesake of Dixwell & Argyle?
The corner of Dixwell and Argyle might soon bear Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson’s name, in honor of a beloved champion of local Black history who, in 89 years of life so far, has made a mark on history herself.
Continue reading ‘Won't You Be My Neighbor, "Dr. Robinson Way"?’
by | Apr 1, 2024 9:11 am | Comments (1)
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New Haven Links' inaugural cohort for winter session of Tea Time With Teens.
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The inaugural cohort of the New Haven Links’ “Tea Time with Teens” celebrated its first five middle school graduates.
by | Mar 29, 2024 11:50 am | Comments (2)
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794 Dixwell, now owned by Clifford Beers.
A mental healthcare provider has closed on its purchase of a former charter school property in Newhallville, making official a two-year-long effort by neighbors to stop that site from becoming a methadone clinic.
Continue reading ‘Clifford Beers Closes On $2.7M Purchase Of Ex-School On Dixwell From APT’
by | Mar 22, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (2)
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Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op volunteer Julia Nojeim fixing Alfred Wicker's flat tire.
Angus Lamont, Mayor Justin Elicker, Catherine Lindsay, and Steve Winter look on as Doreen Abubakar cuts the ribbon.
Agitating the atmosphere: That’s what Doreen Abubakar called the opening of the Newhallville Bike Box, a new free bike repair station on Shelton Avenue and Hazel Street.
“We live in a place where there is no library, no medical institution, and no community space where people can gather,” Abubakar, founder of the Community Placemaking Engagement Network, told the spirited group of 30 at a festive, if wind-buffeted, ribbon-cutting ceremony.
by | Mar 22, 2024 11:08 am | Comments (10)
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Lincoln-Bassett parent Stacy Leslie: school pick-up is hectic.
Speed bumps are on the way to Newhallville. What, neighbors asked, about the schools?
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Presses Zinn On Speed Bumps, School Traffic Safety’
by | Mar 21, 2024 3:46 pm | Comments (4)
From "mass-level instruments of death" to homes and community: Matt Pugliese, Alder Kim Edwards, Alder Troy Streater, Eric Steinberg, Alex Twining, Arlevia Samuel, David Silverstone, Jake Pine and Mayor Justin Elicker break ground on Winchester Green.
As excavators pushed dirt from side to side at 315 Winchester Ave., city officials and housing developers dug shovels into a picture-planned pile of rocks to symbolically break ground on the mixed-use development that will one day be called the Winchester Green.
Continue reading ‘"Winchester Green" Grows Into Construction Zone’
by | Mar 15, 2024 2:03 pm | Comments (3)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter helps serve food to neighbors and fellow politicians.
An all-boys charter school is gearing up to open this fall in a stately Dixwell Avenue building that neighbors stopped from becoming a methadone clinic two years ago.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Celebrates Community Organizing Win’